most of the animals i post are actually my schools that we get from people who can no longer take care of them. The current frogs i have were bought from a pet store that is very selective with where they get their animals from and have no problems with them but i have bought some frogs from petsmart and they were very unhealthy :(

I imagine a lot of those chain shops would carry unhealthy and poorly bred animals. I had a good experience with petsmart though, with a pet robovoski hamster that lasted me 2 years and a few months, more than it's average life span and it didn't show any signs of sickness or poor health. Obviously at old age it started declining movement, but that's a given. I'm thinking of owning some reptiles soon, do you think its better to start off with a known breeder or a petshop?

depends on what you plan to get. usually i tell people to never buy from pet smart because of the horror stories i hear from my friends that used to work there about how they ship / take care of the animals. Also what reptiles?